As we said yesterday, there were quite a few good movies released last week.
Therefore, in last week’s Douban movie-Zhoukou tablet list, six new films were on the list at the same time. Among them, the best evaluation is this Hollywood blockbuster "13 lives" which just went online in August.
This film is now rated by nearly 10,000 people, and it still maintains 8.3 points. In this year’s new film, it is also very worthy of attention.
At first glance, Thirteen Lives may not be so amazing, just a traditional disaster film. But thanks to this solidity and tradition, the film has maintained a very good visibility, which is the kind of familiar taste.
Of course, from the line-up, this film is really worthy of attention. The director of this film is the old director Ron Howard, who is also a heavyweight director in Hollywood. Both the director and the producer have participated in many excellent works.
Many well-known films, such as A Beautiful Mind, The Iron Fist Man, Fast Wind, Apollo 13, Dialogue with Nixon and so on, are all directed by Ron Howard.
Of course, he also has an actress daughter, bryce dallas howard, who is also well known to everyone.
In addition to director Ron Howard, Vigo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, joel edgerton and others also added a lot of color to the film. Only from the line-up, this is indeed the most noteworthy film in the near future.
Besides, the film is also very attractive in plot.
The movie "Thirteen Lives" is based on a real event, from the cave rescue incident in Thailand in 2018. It is estimated that some friends still remember that incident, because it happened to be during the World Cup.
Twelve Thai football teenagers went to explore caves with their coaches, but because the rainy season came early, they were trapped in caves by a heavy rain, which lasted for many days.
After that, the Thai government and thousands of volunteers from all over the world began a long rescue work.
Just last year, there was a documentary about this incident, so we can watch it together with reference.
That’s last year’s Cave Rescue in Thailand:
This documentary is also very exciting. Today, the score of Douban is over 10,000, with a score of 9.0, which is also a high-scoring documentary last year.
Its director is Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, a well-known documentary couple. Their previous documentary "Rock Climbing with Hands" must have been seen by many friends.
In fact, whether it is the documentary "Cave Rescue in Thailand" or the drama "Thirteen Lives", the content is similar. After all, they all originated from the same real event.
Or, you can look at these two films this way. The documentary "Cave Rescue in Thailand" is more like a background information display, so that you can better understand the whole incident.
The drama "Thirteen Lives", because it is a drama performed by actors, will naturally add some detailed descriptions and emotional clues, including the recurrence of some events that cannot be presented in documentaries, which will make the audience feel the event more intuitively.
Of course, for me, whether it is a documentary or a drama, the feelings are actually similar.
As mentioned earlier, in fact, we often see all kinds of news or movies about disaster rescue, but what is special about this incident is that apart from the official rescue in Thailand, there are thousands of volunteers from all over the world who work together and do their best to participate in this rescue.
Even the people who played a key role in the final rescue were amateur cave divers, not professional rescuers.
When this group of volunteers from all over the world, who had nothing to do with these teenagers, volunteered to participate in the rescue without fear of hard work.
Is the most touching part of this incident.
It shows the rare goodwill in human nature, ignoring language, race and national boundaries …
Is across everything.
The reason why I was moved by such a plot is that in the last two years, such goodwill has become more and more scarce.
When teenagers were found trapped in caves, the Thai authorities quickly organized a rescue team. However, this rescue is indeed very difficult.
Because the cave was very deep and filled with water, at first, they were not even sure whether these teenagers were alive or dead.
In order to get further information or promote rescue work, it is necessary to dive in caves.
Although Thai SEALs have rich diving experience, they are not good at cave diving.
After all, cave diving is not a routine diving, it will be more dangerous and more difficult. Compared with conventional diving, cave diving will face more complex and unknown terrain, including the possibility of passing through a very narrow hole.
Especially, in the process of cave diving, the visibility of divers is extremely low. On the one hand, the water in the cave is very turbid, on the other hand, there is really no light in the cave, and the function of their own lighting equipment is very limited, which is why they have to touch the guide rope all the way, because that is their eyes.
Therefore, although in the movie, for the convenience of the audience, we can still see their various behaviors in the water.
But according to the description of the real cave diver, you can’t see anything there.
Of course, the film can’t be made like this, so the audience can’t see anything. We just need to understand that rescue in reality will be more difficult and dangerous than in movies.
So, when the SEALs were unable to perform the diving rescue mission. Several main characters in the film, a group of cave diving amateurs appeared.
Because there is no occupation in cave diving, these people with rich experience in cave diving are actually amateurs, and they also have other jobs themselves.
Their participation has promoted the rescue process to a certain extent. First of all, the two leading men, John and Richard, went deep into the cave through hours of cave diving, and found these 13 people and brought back precious images.
This discovery undoubtedly brings hope to the families of teenagers and lets them know that the children are still alive. At least people are still alive, so we can carry out the next rescue work.
Of course, it’s not that simple.
As mentioned earlier, cave diving is a very demanding diving activity, especially the whole process is very long and complicated, and it often takes several hours to dive, which has very high requirements for the specialty.
At the same time, not long after the discovery of these teenagers, a tragic event happened. A former Thai Navy SEAL member died during rescue diving due to lack of experience in cave diving and oxygen exhaustion.
And his misfortune further hinted at the difficulty of rescue work. A well-trained professional SEAL can’t finish the cave diving and escape successfully.
How can a group of inexperienced children get out of the dark caves by diving?
Therefore, the film shows that after the two protagonists find that these teenagers are still alive. In fact, the two men were so complicated that they even wanted to escape and didn’t want to make this discovery public.
Because they don’t know what to do next, and they are completely incapable of bringing those teenagers out alive.
How to safely take this group of teenagers who have no diving experience and spend a few hours diving through the dark caves.
Officially, it is: an impossible task.
Of course, in the end, they successfully completed the rescue mission, and 13 people, including the coach, were successfully rescued.
Specific how to rescue, the film also tells the process in detail, interested parties can also pay attention to it.
What the film finally presents is that human beings have achieved the impossible with their efforts.
Such a result is always touching.
In fact, whether it is this "13 lives" or the event itself, the touching reason is that most of the participants are ordinary people.
So in the climax of the rescue, the director specially arranged an emotional scene. One of the rescuers accidentally got lost while taking a child away. Because he was too flustered, he thought that the teenager might die. Tension and fear made him close to collapse and kept blaming himself.
Fortunately, in the end, it was just a false alarm. Everything went well and the children were saved.
However, this scene will also make the audience more aware that these rescuers are really not heroes, they are just ordinary people, and they also have fragility and fear.
However, the heroic behavior from ordinary people will be even more touching.
And the most wonderful thing about this "Thirteen Lives" is that it tells a story of a civilian hero and their kindness across national boundaries.
At the same time, the actors have also paid a lot for this film. For example, several leading actors have done a lot of diving exercises for the film, and they need to shoot their own diving. But diving, especially cave diving, is really very difficult and dangerous, and the actors also said that there will be great panic during diving.
Colin Farrell, the male host, even said that in the future, he might be cautious about making a film about water sports, because this film left a great shadow on him.
Of course, although it is very serious, Colin Farrell has made a lot of preparations and efforts for this film. In addition to practicing diving, I have been communicating with the prototype of the character to better understand the role.
Even, because the prototype he played was keen on long-distance running, Colin Farrell practiced long-distance running, and even ran a Brisbane Marathon during filming.
Finally, I finished the race in 3 hours and 54 minutes.
According to official data, he averaged 5 minutes and a half kilometers, and finally ranked 34 in his 45-49 age group (64 in total) and 222 among all the players. As a player who practices and plays, this result is still ok.
Therefore, this group of actors is really too hard to run a marathon for the movie.
After the film was released, the overall evaluation was also good. In addition to douban, IMDb also scored 7.8 points.
Of course, I also saw some questioning voices. It seems that some netizens on Douban feel that this film overemphasizes the role of several white cave divers and ignores the efforts of other volunteers, because thousands of volunteers from many countries actually participated in this rescue activity, including the Thai government.
How can I put it? I can only say that this is the limitation of the creator, or it is called a choice. After all, movies are always limited by time, and creators also have their own direction of expression. Movies can’t cover everything, and they always have to be prominent and choose.
There’s nothing I can do about it.
Of course, watching such a movie, I still hope to give up more bad feelings and just feel the film from the perspective of ordinary people.
Whether white, black or yellow, when participating in this rescue activity.
In fact, they are all kind people first.
Including, in this rescue, a group of China volunteers also participated and provided a lot of support.
All of them are worthy of respect.
